Marguerite Janvrin Adams

Adams was born in New York City, the daughter of Joseph Edward Janvrin and Laura Lawall Janvrin. Her father was a physician and a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War. She graduated from the Spence School.^[1]

Adams was a poet who published frequently in national periodicals including Opportunity,^[2][3] The Journal of American History,^[4] The Churchman,^[5] The Living Church,^[6] Prairie Schooner,^[7] Spirit,^[8][9][10] and American Poetry Magazine.^[11] "When she writes directly from the heart, Miss Adams is a sound lyric poet," noted reviewer Robert Resor in 1948.^[12] She was on the board of the Poetry Society of America. She was a member of the Authors League and the Pen and Brush Club.^[1]

Janvrin married physician Phineas Hillhouse Adams in 1914. They had three children.^[13][14][15] Her husband died in 1933, and she died in 1957, at the age of 67.^[1]

All titles below are poems, unless otherwise specified.

• "Absence" (1926)^[16]
• "Song of Lost Days" and "Indian Summer" (1927)^[17]
• "Metropolitan Tower--New York", "The Wharves", "In Passing", and "Monticello" (1928)^{[3][4][18][19]}
• "Query" (1929)^[20]
• "Armour" (1930)^[5]
• "Inspiration of Spires--New York" (1931)^[11]
• I Give You Words (1934, poetry collection)^[21][22]
• "Brief Hour" (1936)^[23]
• "Conversation--In Youth" and "Conversation--In Age" (1937)^[2]
• "Tenantry" and "New Hampshire Winter" (1938)^[8][24]
• "Mediation" and "If I Must Live in Cities" (1941)^[9][25]
• "Tears" and "October" (1943)^[26][27]
• "Island of the Dead", "Dark Reaping", "Appointment in September", and "Certain Hour" (1944)^{[28][29][30][31]}
• "The Fight is Longer" (1945)^[6]
• "Two Portraits" (1946)^[7]
• "They Who Possess the Sea", "Nungesser and Coli", and "Fellowship" (1946)^[32]
• "Golden City" (1948)^[10]
• Insignia Amoris (1948, poetry collection)^[1]
• "Text for Spring" (1949)^[33]
• "American History" (1951)^[34]
• "So Said the Sleeper" (1957)^[35]